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Judge Holden from Blood Meridian

In all of fiction, there is perhaps no more horrifying, monstrous character than Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy’s "Blood Meridian." Yet many readers will be shocked to learn that Judge Holden, the almost seven-foot-tall, hairless mass murderer with a genius IQ, was actually flesh and blood.

"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way." -Judge Holden, "Blood Meridian"

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